Quotes from Meat Loaf

I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

If you want my views of history, there's something you should know. The three men I admire the most are Curly, Larry, and Mo.

Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.

I know the territory, I've been around. It'll all turn to dust, and we'll fall down, and sooner or later you'll be screwing around.

If the thrill is gone, it's time to take it back.

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

You've been cold to me so long, I'm crying icicles instead of tears.

Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back.

Dreams they come and go, but thoughts like love will always grow.

I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm EVER gonna love you. Now don't be sad, cause two out of three ain't bad.

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.

Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.

Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you.

It was always summer and the future called We were ready for adventure and we wanted them all And there was so much left to dream And so much time to make it real

'Hell in a Handbasket' is not dealing with the political nature of the country. It's dealing with the humanity and the compassion of the world.

My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.

In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

I don't talk about politics. Not getting involved in politics at all.

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.